SpaceX Launch Schedule

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 425 Failures: 12 Pending: 121

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-126

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 30, 2024, 8:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Fifth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

Unknown B1088 - Maiden Flight Of Course I Still Love You
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-70

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 4, 2024, 10:13 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1067 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-14

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 5, 2024, 3:05 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1081 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:

SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024. SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1076 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
December 07, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Of Course I Still Love You
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-5

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
December 08, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Unknown
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 3.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO. The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 17 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-65
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M
Success
5 days ago
Kondor-FKA No.2
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

The Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E sate…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Starlink Group 6-76
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Zhuque-2E
Success
1 week ago
Guangchuan-01 & 02
Launch Area 96 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 satellites for testing and demonstrating LEO communication satellite constellation technologies. First flight of the enhanced Zhuque-2.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Starlink Group 12-1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Electron
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Ice AIS Baby (Kinéis 11-15)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Third batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.


Long March 2
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
SuperView Neo 2-03 & 04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Commercial Synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites built by CAST for China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd.


Electron
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Leidos-2
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Second sub-orbital launch of Electron of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program for Leidos and Dynetics.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Starlink Group 9-13
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


New Shepard
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
NS-28
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Twenty-eighth flight of New Shepard carrying six passengers.